The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-21
TIL. ItIkAZNS kINI.
IT. NotWcd but nun. aud Denotes ~
spread al Rain In the West

than ala many people OF W AGO gbIc
yesterday upon the
SWOLLEN BRAZos TIDE.
The rise was fairly turned on Gt
this point at about a. IN. yesterday.
At sunrise those who 20 to CLEAN the
rivers harvest of ilotsam, gathered on
the banks and with all sorts OF har-
poons secured the treasures of wood
which ever comes on such occasions
OTHER GAZERs.
stylish visitors who had galed with
contempt the day before, from car
windows, upon the narrow ribbon of
water YEARLY threading IT. way
through an elongated Sahara ola dry
rivers bed, went down aud looked
with astonishment upon the lordly
river, capable of bearing upon It's
bosom the
LARGEST RIVER STEAMERS.
The tide was covered with the &c
cumulations of years of drouth.
Years is word advisedly used, be.
cause. since the flood of leSl. there
has boon n drouth condition more or
less prevalent In the regions wa-hcd
by the BrnIos, toward the up
per waters of tho Icgend-hauuied
river Deceased animals and AM mails
alive, but cntrapped. afforded al
every trooping mcuagcric, along the
great highway of muddy water. and
the "-mOrl boy with hi- busy line,
seeking stovewood, often paused to
watch "ilcetlng show which, in
several cases were for man Illusion
given For instances
A PELICAN.
In the mass OF floating wreckagc
borne upon the polluted river, APP
pearcd something white, which be-
came at once the exposure of all the
gaIcrs grouped upon the iutting land
heads, Just below the upper ford a
boy in very light boat which he
propelled with single paddle skill
fully, darling In and ont of the Islands
of tras b and commanding his craft at
will In spite of the current, went
swiftly up the river aud soon lifted
the attractive object into his canoe.
Everybody rushed to the brink at
which his returning prov was aimed
aud pres ntly il WAS observed that
it was pelican. \ 22-calibrc bullet
hole through its head indicated
the cause of ITS death. Boss Jones
shot HIM !" The intcrjcction was de-
liv3red by n young brakeman of the
ST. Louis. Arkansas and Texas rail-
way. II saw Boss Jones go up the
river this morning with target gun,
and he is h on pclicans,' contin-
ucd tho speaker. SO II was generally
agreed by the informal Jury OF inquest
that the dead Louisianian came to his
death by the means of gunshot, the
gun being then and there held IN the
hands of Boss Jones. Well, it was a
good shot, and ii taXidcrmist will
mount the great white bird, he will
prove All ornament anywhere. Later:
The boy cut oil the pclican's wings,
and recommittcd the carcass to the
river.
BUFFALO.
The carcass OF buffalo was also
among the dead animals borne on the
Bra'os swell. 1t WAS possibly that
last builaio which the Globe
Democrat gave column to lately.
with picture of the solitary animal,
which picture. by the way, hhd pre-
vious!y done duty in other sketches
In the Globe DcmoCrats department
OF Zoology. There were many con
lectures ~ to tho floating buffalo ~
he oozcd mnjestically beneath the
bridge with n black bird doing duty
rs sentinel upon his di,tendcd
trunk. Some supposed 1t ia he the
patriarch of Col. Charles Goodnights
heard of bison, gathered by that fan
cier of horned animals on
his palo DurO rancho 1t
was suggested that the poor
fellow got begged on the upper Bra.
los cunllucnts and SO died, to be
swept away on the present wash day
of Dame Nature. Very few believed
the story of boy who said he saw
the same animal drawn out below and
declared that he was nuc. Who
ever heard of dead mule: Bat
whatever the animal was he had an
enlarged crest which the boy said
WAS collar and n pair of names,
which-thc boy said--an old farmer
removed aud aitcrward pushed the
carcass back into the river,
THE CoNCLUsIoN.
The rise was about seven ana half
iect, and the river was still rising at .
o'clock last night. From that time
no particular onscrNatlOh wa" maze
by The Examiner. just such au
event rs this water boom Wa most
needed. The vast surface OF water
presented TO the sun wit he drank boy
the dry imps of thu upper air, and
with their myriad maws filled they
will extend their demand toward the
ocean aud mix their fresh tears with
brine and then weep rains that viii
gladden. all the fields. There i, no
science in that explanation, because
the writer does not know any sort OF
science, but the reader will believe
two weeks hence that Elijah dropped
more than one overcoat, aud that one
of them was picked up in THE
EXAMINER office.
BUSINESS uNTTIR>.